Re: [O] [POLL] Syntax change: make \[...\] non-inline (+1)

[Nick Dokos]

Federico Beffa <address@hidden> writes:

> Who is entitled to vote? If I am then here is my vote in favor for the
> following reasons:
>
> 1. the construct \[...\] has been defined in LaTeX for equations which
> must stand out and therefore belong on separate lines. It would
> therefore make sense to conform to the borrowed syntax.
>

I don't quite understand why you are so gung-ho for this but the
following works fine:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
This is a displayed \[ x = 3 \] equation.
\end{document}
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

So what exactly is the problem?

> 5. Existing documents are very easy to fix.
>

Backwards compatibility is important. It has been broken
before, for very good reasons, and even though it was done very
carefully, it still caused many problems (still does).
So I don't buy the "very easy to fix" part: it will bite somebody
two minutes before he/she has to make a presentation (or even during the
presentation - DAMHIKT).

Nick